About Lorle
When Lorle speaks, parents listen. Not because she graduated from UC Berkeley, majored in child psychology, founded and co-managed two companies for twenty-five years, spent three decades researching parenting trends, studied over a hundred experts on happiness and success, wrote several books, and has designed more than a two hundred products to help busy parents.
The real reason why parents listen is because she’s achieved what many parents are desperately hoping to achieve. Lorle worked full-time for thirty-five years while raising her own five kids, with a lot less stress and a lot more joy than most parents are experiencing today. Her kids are certainly not perfect, but they’re responsible, respectful, caring, happy, hardworking adults - who have been successful in both their professional careers and personal relationships. They've stayed connected to each other and to their parents. They don't hesitate to step in and help each other when needed. What more could a parent possibly wish for?
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Mother of five, ages 26-45
Over the last ten years, Lorle noticed two major trends that led to the development of 10-Minute Parent, which helps parents and their children learn twelve critical mindsets for happiness and success.
1. High school teachers, university deans, and employers started complaining about over-involved parents and a generation of anxious, unhappy, disconnected young adults that are completely unprepared for real life in the workforce.
2. A huge shift took place in corporate training from time management, organizational, and leadership skills, to softer skills like emotional intelligence, resilience, mindfulness, empathy, and gratitude.
These two trends are, in some way, related. They are the same skill sets that parents have been too busy to teach their children - since they were laser-focused on building their kids’ resumes for college with as many sports, clubs, and extracurricular activities they could possibly squeeze into their schedules. Somewhere along the line, parents were led to believe that if we give our kids enough praise, enough A’s and enough trophies, they will think like winners. Successful people know that’s not how life really works.
Lorle has spent twenty years studying what the experts (and scientists) say about happiness and success - first from a parenting perspective and later from a business perspective. In the process, she realized that there are thousands of authors, speakers, researchers, and consultants sharing powerfully important and inspiring information, but most of them leave us hanging without practical solutions that we can apply to our crazy, busy lives. They deliver a clear WHAT and a compelling WHY, but the HOW is usually vague or non-existent - and rarely results in any kind of permanent change.
Lorle’s passion has evolved into developing tools that help people use valuable information in simple ways that will keep them focused long enough to build new habits that stick. In other words, real change. She has recently developed a unique set of conversation starters, called LET’S TALK about LIFE, to help parents better prepare their kids for life with the same mindsets for happiness and success that corporate America is now trying to teach their employees.
#1 - The10-MINUTE PARENT Introductory Workshop
The 10-Minute Parent Introductory workshop shows parents how they can be successful at work and great parents too, without sacrificing their health or driving themselves crazy. Statistics and studies on children and family life help them understand the “why.” The science behind the program explains the “how.”
The advice we get from most parenting and work/life balance experts doesn’t work because it doesn’t get at the heart of the problem. Getting organized, prioritizing to-do lists, making time for yourself, and letting go of guilt are all good tips, but they don’t solve the problem and they don’t make parents feel better. We haven't solved the problem because no one is talking about the REAL problem. Parents have been misled by teachers, parenting experts, and psychologists - for decades - to believe that it is their job to GIVE their children self-esteem, it's their job to MAKE them happy, and it's their job to CREATE success for them. This is an impossible task that no parent can possibly accomplish.This workshop gives parents an immediate sense of relief from the pressure, stress and guilt. They will leave feeling hopeful about making their lives easier, confident that they will be successful, and excited to get started. All participants will receive a year of 10-Minute Parent monthly newsletters, complete with FREE printable MINI-TOOLS, and a discount on our LET'S TALK about LIFE digital conversation starters.
#2 - The DIZZYBUSY DOZEN Workshop
There are twelve things parents should STOP doing NOW that, instead of helping their kids, are actually handi-capping them. We've been told - for decades - that if we give our children enough praise, enough A's and enough trophies, they will think like winners. We are now finding out that this self-esteem movement was the biggest fiasco in the history of parenting strategies. It has had the opposite effect and now we see that we have created a nation of young adults that are totally unprepared for life. More than half of our college students are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, stressed, very sad, and very lonely. One third are so depressed they can't function. These are serious and disturbing facts that should scare us. This workshop will show parents how quickly they can turn all that around and raise children who become happy, successful adults.
#3 - The HAPPY FAMILY HABITS Workshop
The HAPPY FAMILY HABITS make it simple for families to get what they need in less time, with less effort and a lot less stress. These habits are based on a set of scientifically-proven "protective factors" that help build strong, loving, happy families. The three HAPPY FAMILY HABITS are: Family Talk, Family Fun, and Family Memories. Believe it or not, parents can accomplish all three of those things in just ten minutes a day of good parenting moments. The single most important thing every parent should do for their children's future well-being is to share meals together and talk about life. This workshop provides the tips and tools you need to make that not only easy, but fun. Once parents understand what's worth their time and effort, and what's not, they'll see how easy it is to accomplish more for their families in a lot less time.